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Maggi here, ready to announce our newest chance for you to win some rockin’ Gauche Alchemy goodness! I’m pleased as punch to tell you that for the month of September, Gauche Alchemy is sponsoring the Sketchy Thursdays Challenge Blog!

Sketchy Thursdays is a fun challenge blog that uses sketches as inspiration for your creations and we here at GA are super excited because we’ve decided to give one lucky participant our new kit, Nature Calls!

For your creative consideration and to use for this challenge, here is the sketch:

Our DT took this sketch, made it their own (in a sort of “smack it up, flip it, rub it down” if you will :P) and here are their fabulous projects!

Pam:

I made a card using pieces from the Lady Marmalade and Black Out Mixed Media Color Kits. I am trying hard to use my stash up and have a sheet of boy rubons sent to me when I was on the Kaisercraft DT. They are not the kind of things I would put on a boy scrapbook page though, so I decided to make a card for my 17 year old daughter who is about to leave home to go to university. I don’t think 17 is too young to develop some good healthy cynicism-so this card is to remind her that while many girls wear their hearts on their sleeves, many boys wear their hearts in their trousers!!-so take care!

I swear, I SWEAR I was going for kitsch and cute with this. :P One little Glossy Accents accident on the napkin, I turned her into a zombie to cover it up and… well… I have no defense! Still, What better way to take your mind off being undead than to serve up some brain pie, eh? Mmmm…Brains. *g* I used the Paper Napkin Art Kit, some Ouchless Cardboard and some bits from Banana Hammock, Black Out and Pink Parts Mixed Media Color Kits.

Stephanie:

I used this sketch as inspiration to create my very first art journal – this is the cover. I used some patterned paper and rub-ons from the BabyKiddoCutie Paper Craft Kit, some Punchinella for stenciling (and Glimmer Mist to spray through it), some random pieces from the Wholey Sheet Kit, some white acrylic paint and some random ‘stuff’ from my stash. Basically, I just sprayed, painted and glued until things were glitzy enough for my magpie self, and the only guideline I was working with was hoping to end up with the final result looking at least slightly like the sketch! (LOL!)

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Oh Pam – yours did make me chuckle. I bet she loves it! Amazing work here again girlies – I know I say it everytime but I can’t believe how different they all are when we all worked from the same sketch!

I am so excited to have you guys playing along with and sponsoring Sketchy Thursdays this month!!!!! I was so looking forward to seeing what you’d do with the skech and I was NOT disappointed! Woohoo!!!!!

You ladies do such awesome work. Pam, your card cracks me up – or at least your explanation of where boys keep their hearts. Carmen, I know you meant to make this cute and the zombie thing was strictly an accident. Riiiiiiiight. Steph, congrats on your first art journal! You gonna love it! Deb, your found objects are makin’ me drool…. and all of you… man, so much talent here!

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